I'm very blessed and fortunate that people want to go see my movies.
Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.
Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.
If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again – you send them to Egypt.
The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.
The first suicide bombing that entered my consciousness was the Beirut embassy bombing. It was very personal. I'd been in the embassy and I knew most of the people in the station who were killed in the bombing. So you take the personal aspect of it and the mystery of who the bomber was and the fact that a small group of people could drive us out of a country that was absolutely key to the United States, and what was behind this. . . The fact that they've been able to hide the embassy bombers' identities for all these years tells me we're up against a very capable movement.
Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the Iraq War will end up changing the United States more than it will ever change Iraq.
To speak of atrocious crimes in mild language is treason to virtue.
The essence of the enjoyment of a garden is that things should look as though they like to grow in it.
Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.
Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.